Georges GTi

[HaydEn]

1.8t from the cabby in this?

[GeorgeMK1]

1.8t from the cabby in this?

Haha, indeed. i invested too much money and time into that conversion to sell it for peanuts. So keeping it and going to have some fun

Finally ripped the motor out of the cabby and everything along with it. So here it is, the motor will start getting stripped down and slowly getting things cleaned and freshened up. I'll be doing a lot of cleaning, removing of clutter and powder coating and polishing things. Hoping in a few months its ready by the time I get my license back haha.

Goodbye cabby, you were genuinely the most fun thing I've ever owned. RIP








Short term motor and gearbox plans are something along the lines of; get the rest of the bits for the K04 swap and complete it. Powder coat the intake manifold, rocker cover, paint the block and gearbox - sell the short ratio 02j and get a long ratio one to match the AGU well. Diesel Geek components as follows - short shifter, solid cable holder bushes, complete rebuild on the shift box bushes (he makes amazing stuff if anyone wants to check it out). I've got some cool stuff I'd like to do with the shifter box inside the car, having it exposed to see all the linkages move around and such.

Also place a nice big order from ECS for a few other things as time goes. But before any of this, the GTi needs RWC!!!

[Mk1sleeper]

Hi George,the Campaign looks like a really good thing, she will be awesome with a 20VT in her!!
So what fate for the old Cabby?? she seems to have served you well! Up for sale now???

Cheers,Scott.

[GeorgeMK1]

Hi George,the Campaign looks like a really good thing, she will be awesome with a 20VT in her!!
So what fate for the old Cabby?? she seems to have served you well! Up for sale now???

Cheers,Scott.

Hey Scott, thanks mate - yeah it looks like a decent project so far.

Cabby has been up for grabs at the moment, but looks like it might go to the scrap yard in the next week or two by the look of things. It's a shame, but I can't keep both as that makes a total of 5 cars in my teeny driveway haha.

[GeorgeMK1]

Went in today to drop the bumper, tail lights and beaver to the panel beater and managed to have a quick look at what was done.

Wowee was I shocked that just about everything pulled out... The floor section was a little rippled (tiny bit here and there) and they advised it's not worth replacing the entire floor section for a few ripples. The chassis legs are all straight and he said there wasn't that much damaged "we've definitely seen worse" haha so that made me feel good.

Unfortunately in the midst of it all, I forgot to take any pics. But he said he has plenty so Ill upload that when its finished. ETA time is approx. 3 weeks, then I'll give it a quick spray at home and get it ready for RWC. The ball is rolling!

[HaydEn]

Awesome news George!

[Tommie]

Great news George, can't wait to see the pics.

[*dan*]

Wonderful news George!

[GeorgeMK1]

Have been ordering here and there from the states and parts slowly coming in. Awaiting on goods from ECS and IE still to come. Also have ordered a cheapo ebay k04 manifold as I wasn't able to find a genuine one anywhere locally.
Will just run it for now until I upgrade to a bigger turbo down the track.

My Tech-53 02j mounts came in. Super happy with them, look like decent quality too. My DIY ones did the job just fine, but trying to make this all neat and tidy.




Parts room is slowly getting more full. So keen to get moving this project going.

[sports racer]

Parts room? I have a Parts shed (well, a few sheds actually) plus a few cars stored at a mates place and a few more at mums.

But then you're new to VW's aren't you young grasshopper.